Scott Jennings: Trump ‘Can Will’ a Nominee of the Republican Party ‘into Existence’

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JENNINGS: "Well, look, the president, as all presidents are, is the political head of his party, and his opinion matters a lot. When Barack Obama was the president, when George W. Bush was the president, when Bill Clinton was the president, all of these people had enormous influence over what the people in the party were going to do top to bottom. Trump, I would argue, of all of those people, is probably the strongest party boss of the modern political era. If he wants you to be the nominee of your party, he can will it into existence. But you have to understand, his agenda is what Republican voters, and especially Republican primary voters, it‘s what they‘ve endorsed. It‘s what they voted for. They trust his judgment. And if he says, 'I think candidate A is better to enact that agenda than candidate B,' they follow along not because it‘s a personality contest, because they voted for a particular agenda out of this president, and they want him to have the best possible team, based on his judgment, to enact that agenda. It happened in Kentucky with Massie. That was the issue there, they thought he‘d gotten off the team. It‘s what happened in Texas. They believe that Paxton would fight harder for the agenda than Cornyn. That's basically the underlying issue in all these primaries."